Technomyrmex

Technomyrmex
Temporal range: Late oligocene? - Recent
T. albipes worker from Mauritius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Tapinomini
Genus: Technomyrmex
Mayr, 1872
Type species
Technomyrmex strenuus
Mayr, 1872
Diversity
98 species
Synonyms

Aphantolepis Wheeler, 1930
Engramma Forel, 1905
Tapinoptera Santschi, 1925

Technomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. With 98 species, it is one of the largest and most diverse ant genera in the Dolichoderinae. The genus distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical zones with most species occurring in the Oriental-Malesian and Afrotropical regions. One species, Technomyrmex albipes is a tramp ant now widespread throughout the tropics due to human activities.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Technomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Genus: Technomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Sharaf, M.; Collingwood, C.; Aldawood, A. (2011). "Technomyrmex montaseri sp. n., a new ant species of the T. gibbosus-group from Oman (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with a key to the Technomyrmex species of the Arabian Peninsula". ZooKeys (108): 11–19. Bibcode:2011ZooK..108...11S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.108.930. PMC 3119313. PMID 21852925.
  4. ↑ Shattuck, S.O. (1992). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Sociobiology. 21: 1–181.